XIII Art Exhibition of the Association of Austrian Visual Artists Secession

Details

Published by Ver Sacrum, Vienna.

Exhibition:

Sécession. L’Art Graphique à Vienne autour de 1900, Musée-Galerie de la Seita, Paris 1999, cat. no. 13;

New Gallery, New York 2017/18.

Provenance:

Collection/Estate Serge Sabarsky, New York;

Collection/Foundation Vally Sabarsky, New York.

Descrizione

“But therein lies the art: to select and organise the fragments in such a way that the viewer’s imagination is completely conquered! (…) Thus the posters became the masters of the suggestive line and the suggestive colour.”

Franz Servaes in ‘Ver Sacrum’, September 1898.

– Created for the exhibition of the Vienna Secession, which took place from February to March 1902

– Koloman Moser is one of the co-founders of the Vienna Secession

– The female figures symbolise the unity of the three arts: Architecture, painting and sculpture

Koloman Moser was one of the leading modernist artists in Vienna in the early 20th century. As one of the co-founders of the Vienna Secession, which was founded in 1897 and split off from the conservative academy, he designed several posters for the group’s exhibitions. He is regarded as the Secession’s outstanding graphic artist. Best known is this slender vertical format, which alludes to the unity of the three arts with its three statuesque figures: Architecture, painting and sculpture.